Re: [opennms-discuss] Polling SNMP data for certain categories only

[Ted K. <te...@op...>]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 15:57 -0400, Tarus Balog wrote:
> On Sep 27, 2005, at 6:30 AM, Chris Phillips wrote:
> 
> > I have 900 Cisco 837's and 20 Cisco 1760's. I want to poll all  
> > available
> > data from the 1760's but only minimal throughput and uptime on the
> > 837's. Looking at the config files for snmp there doesn't appear to be
> > any way to accomplish this... attributes available seem to be solely
> > defined by what oid's exist and such, and from that angle all devices
> > appear the same. so I either leave it all as is, and get a nasty IO
> > overhead and no disk space, or i lose information of critical network
> > nodes.
> 
> I would borrow the threshold category in assets, set up two  
> collection schemas, one for "all" and one for "little" and then use  
> that category to put each system into the proper bucket.
> 
> -T

Can you elaborate on this?

It would be awesome if you mean one can map a datacollection group to a
collectd package :-)


Regards,
Ted